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TrustE Launches Trusted Spammer Program
Silverhammer writes: "InfoWorld is reporting that such luminaries as TRUSTe, ePrivacy Group, MSN, and DoubleClick are getting together to develop a "trusted senders" program to certify "commercial email" and "elevate" it above ISPs' and end users' spam filters. Why, you ask? Because they believe it's actually our fear of fraud that's hurting their response rates. Apparently all that stuff about invasion of privacy and theft of resources is just a big misunderstanding..." The Infoworld story linked above has the best information about this seal program, but CNet has another story including a quote forecasting 1400 pieces of spam per person per day in five years. Update: 01/31 17:02 GMT by M : The FTC is announcing a crackdown on spam.
American military specialists had begun to believe that the Afghan military has been avoiding contact out of fear that the bullets the americans were using would cause cancer. The americans have, since then, gotten together and dilivered many more bullets in order to prove to the Afghans that the bullets wouldn't cause any cancer. The afghans declined comment.
Can someone explain this to me, without working themselves into a lather??
I'm a tech guy....I get (understand) most things. What I don't get is the religious fervor that people work themselves into when they get spam. To put it bluntly, what's the big freakin' deal?? Delete it and move on....or am I missing a larger point?
Better to get spam then junk snail mail...spam doesn't have to be recycled. Spell it out for me...why should I care?